The Celtics will learn a valuable lesson from this game. You can't spot the other team a 19-point lead in the first quarter. Bad idea, pretty much always. Everybody knows that.... except.... well, hile most coaches would react to a quarter like that by calling timeouts, changing defenses, and working the shot clock, the Celtics responded by keeping the game at Cleveland's chosen tempo, keeping the same dumbass defense intact, shooting contested threes with 18 seconds on the shot clock, and subbing in Sam Cassell. Speaking of Cassell, he has played so horribly for the Celtics that my gag reflex is triggered just by the sight of him and I vomit all over myself whenever he attempts a shot from the floor. Since he shoots every time he touches the damn ball, the Olsen twins have started calling my cell phone for eating disorder tips.
Anyway, the game was over in the first quarter. Of course, the Celtics played about even for the rest of the way, pretty much matching the Cavs bucket for bucket, but it didn't matter. You have to pretty much play wearing clown shoes and blindfolds to lose an NBA game in the first quarter, but the Celtics, with the most loaded roster in the league, pulled it off. Amazing.
I am going to break this down in bullets because I can't write in paragraphs when I'm this irritated.
1) Pretty smart not guarding Delonte West. He won't make uncontested threes, right? We haven't watched him drain those in his sleep for the last three years considering HE PLAYED ON THE CELTICS!?!?!?!?!?!? Great idea!!!!!!!
2) Ray Allen is a liability on both ends of the floor. Give Posey and Tony Allen ALL of his minutes. Posey can hit threes and defend, Ray Allen can't do either. Posey should be starting and playing 40 minutes a night. Tony Allen should get the other 8. I don't know if Ray has mono or what, but he looks terrible, and he has all series. Get him out of the goddamn game because Wally World is making him look like Oliver freaking Miller on the perimeter. I'd rather have Gabe Pruitt in there. I'd even rather have Sam Cassell.... wait.... check that....
3) Watching Zagrunus Ilgalskus drive the line like George Gervin in the third quarter was the most depressing moment of the game.
4) Kudos to Rondo for trying to dunk on Lebron after BronBron stuffed the ever-loving sh!t out of him two minutes earlier. Rondo was the only Celtic going hard to the rim tonight.
5) Lebron took "Acting Like a Pansy" lessons from Manu and a little bird told me that by the end of the class the student had become the master.
6) All of the Cavs were shooting ridiculously well from the field and chances are they will not duplicate that kind of performance again. They missed a ton of open shots in games 1 and 2, so I don't buy the argument that the Celtics play defense a lot worse on the road.
7) Whatever Ben Wallace took for his panic attack/allergy attack/ear infection, I'm going to need a dose before game 4. He was back to the old Ben Wallace, dumb as a stump and flying all over the place. Two days ago he was sitting on the bench with a box of Kleenex. What the hell...
8) Eddie House should be playing more. He plays with energy, he is a great distance shooter, and HE RUNS THE OFFENSE. Sam Cassell does none of the above. Doc is such a moron.
9) Doc, take that three piece suit and put it where you put your Game 3 gameplan... in Scalabrine's slop bucket. I'd take you more seriously if you were coaching in a Catwoman costume.
Alright... if the Celtics hadn't dropped three games on the road to the Hawks I don't think this game would be that big of a deal. But, since the Celtics have demonstrated that the only adjustments they make on the road is that they take everything they do and decide to do it 20% worse.... I am worried. Then again, the Cavs were hitting everything tonight after not hitting a damn thing in the first two. That's going to happen from time to time. So... I hope the Celtics can make some adjustments and win game 4 because let's face it folks, the Cavs aren't that good. The Celtics SHOULD win this series, but they are going to need to get their act together and play well every game instead of only the home games...Source URL: http://ledger-heath.blogspot.com/2008/05/celtics-play-like-garbage-get-destroyed.html
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